Show acres 40 BIM 1 County bounty to develop park The Uintah county Commissioners unanimously agreed Monday to sign a aletter letter Jetter of intent to develop 40 acres of federal land Into a park The Bureau of Land Management land will come cheap an acre The county would lease the land for five years while spending about during that period for development The backers of a neighboring residential residential development have agreed tentatively to pay for an access road as well as parking park park- parking ing areas and sidewalks according to county planner Bob Nicholson The total cost of development Is estimated to be The proposed Miners Miner's Park is in the Coal Mine Basin area west of West at between 1500 and 2500 North The com com- completed completed facility would include softball diamonds and shaded picnic areas Nicholson said the county should main main- maintain maintain tain Its interest In the land in light of the changing policy on the dispersal of surplus land We put in an application application tion over a year ago At that time the was almost giving it away Now the policy apparently has changed The policy is to sell it at fair market value he said If we dont don't perform then the county doesn't transact the land Nicholson told the commissioners I 1 dont don't see any reason why we cant can't proceed said Commissioner Merrill MerriU B Mecham Theres no commitment The bottleneck on the whole project seems to Je be What do we do to water the said Nicholson If the coun- coun county county ty drills and opera operates tes its own well water would cost less than buying it from the Maeser Water Improvement District Some free flowing wells are at the pro pro- proposed proposed posed park site but they have an insufficient Insufficient amount for irrigation A survey in 1981 cited a need for more area to hold organized outdoor activities according to the written proposal from the planners planner's office Uintah County in cooperation with Vernal maintains 60 acres of park An additional 40 to 50 acres of parks land would be needed to meet meeta a national average of six acres for every 1000 population The park site is located north of phase one of the Painted Hills housing project continued on page 5 Park I continued from page pase 1 and east of a site earmarked for a junior college Real estate specialist Jim Paugh of the Bureau of Land Management said Uin- Uin Uintah tah County has applied ap lied for the land under the Recreation and Public Purposes Act of 1926 which allows state and local governments to acquire land or the use of it at little or no cost Weve worked on two or three Recreation and Public Purpose pro pro- said Paugh They include a municipal landfill the site application is being considered said and Paugh-and land leased to the state of Utah at no cost adjacent to the Browns Brown's Park wildlife management area In Daggett County |